Abatai is the seventh son of the old slave Nurhachi, but he is a concubine, after the slave chief Hongtai ascended the throne, many sons and nephews were awarded the title of county kings and princes, and Abatai was only awarded the title of Baylor, under the kings, so there are too many complaints about Hongtai.

In the first year of Tiancong's alliance with Horqin, Abatai refused to attend the meeting with no leather fur to wear, and Hong was too angry to make enemies with him.

After the founding of the country, imitating the Ming system, there were six ministries, with Abatai acting as the Ministry of Industry, plus it as Rao Yu Baylor, but still ranked under the kings, plus it was good at the military, and did not ask about the Ministry of Industry at all, often reprimanded by Hong Tai, and the two were more and more suspicious.

Abatai can fight habitually, and he is also a Manchurian clan, a minister of parliament, and has six bulls in his hands, so Dolgon is more enveloped by him.

This time, Hong Tai raised troops to recruit Ming, and Abatai asked for his own life to go on the expedition, one was that he didn't want to ask about the errand of the Ministry of Industry, and the other was that he wanted to plunder Dingkou and enrich his own cattle record.

After planning to go out with Dolgon, Abatai immediately ordered his subordinate Jialazhangjing Yang Guli to join the Han army's Zhenglan Banner, deputy commander Li Shutai, and the Han army's Wuzhenchaoha, the left wing of the Han army, Gushan, Ezhen, Shi Tingzhu and others to immediately reorganize their troops, and raised 6,000 Han troops to advance to Xin'an and Gaoyang, sweeping south of Baoding.

Li Shutai's father is the second son of the great traitor Li Yongfang, sixteen years old Nurha Chishu daughter Eenzhe, since the first year of the pseudo-Qing Dynasty Chongde has been with Hong Tai to the east and west, known for his military exploits.

In the second year of the Apocalypse, Sun Degong and Li Yongfang colluded privately, and his brothers Shi Guozhu and Shi Tianzhu used the whole city of Guangning to convey their sincerity to Nurhachi, and he was also an executioner whose hands were stained with the blood of the Han people in Liaodong.

The Qing army attacked Baoding, and Lu Xiangsheng, the secretary of the military department stationed in Changping, keenly discovered the fighter plane, and thought that he could take advantage of the division of troops in the east to attack the large camp set up by the slave soldiers in Niulan Mountain.

For this reason, Lu Xiangsheng immediately asked the imperial court for an order, and the Guanning army marched west as soon as possible, preparing to use the Guanning army of 40,000 and the Changping army of 30,000 to jointly attack the puppet Qingqing prince Yue Tuo who was still stationed in Niulan Mountain, and ordered Baoding to strengthen the garrison.

After Chongzhen heard the report, he was worried, Lu Xiangsheng wanted to fight with Yue Tuo, the victory or defeat was between the two, if the main force of the official army was contained by Yue Tuo, then what should Baoding and Xuanda do?

He has also seen the article of the military department, at this time, the former Baoding general Liu Guangzuo has led his troops into Changping, Baoding County does not have many military horses to defend, only Baoding general Liu Guangyong has 1,000 soldiers, as well as the garrison troops and horses in each county.

Can this military horse last for more than a month? Now that Gyeonggi has been eroded, if Baoding and Xuanda are ravaged by the East again, it will not only be Beizhili, but also Shanxi will be under the braided soldiers.

Xue Guoguan, a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion University, said: "Niulan's Shandong Camp is close to Beijing, and there are still 30,000 people in the puppet Wang Yuetuo's department, if Lu Butang can defeat the enemy in one fell swoop, the situation between the enemy and us will be reversed, or the situation in Liaodong may be reversed, so Baoding must follow Lu Butang's proposal to delay the Qing army's offensive." ”

Chongzhen thought so, and summoned Huang Wenchang, the chief soldier of Baoding, who was still in Beijing, to play right, wanting to see if this embarrassed general Guan Zhang who could fight Abatai had a strategy.

Since entering Beijing, Huang Wenchang's mood has been like a roller coaster, up and down.

Since yesterday's decree of the imperial court, Huang Wenchang has fallen into ecstasy, glorifying his ancestors! Glory to the ancestors! 450,000 taels of silver in exchange for the second-grade general soldier and the crown prince, and since then he has been among the top military attaches of the Ming Dynasty.

However, he didn't take long to be proud, the court battle report came, the main force of the pigtail soldiers tens of thousands of people went straight to Baoding, it is expected that the army will be able to come to Baoding Mansion within more than ten days, and the main generals of the slave army who attacked Baoding this time are the famous Dolgon and Abatai.

The puppet king Abatai even played a banner and specialized in the Baoding guerrilla Huang Wenchang.

It's a sin, Lao Tzu has taken rat medicine, and he actually used this Tartar king as a stepping stone, now it's okay, people are named, and they want to come to Gaoyang to settle accounts with themselves.

Looking at the emperor's expectant gaze, the crown prince Taibao, who had just been promoted to Huang Shuai, was in a dilemma.

"General Huang, the entry of the eastern captives into Kou Baoding is imminent, I know that the army and horses of Aiqing's headquarters have been lost, but the pressure on me here is also very great, you see that I have withdrawn 3,000 soldiers from the Beijing camp and Qing to stick to Baoding and Gaoyang, as long as the general insists on more than a month, when Governor Lu exterminates Yue Tuo, the 100,000 army can enter Baoding westward, and then attack with the general internally and externally, and will be able to sweep away the eastern captives with one drum."

In the past two days since Huang Wenchang entered Beijing, he also learned a lot about the battle report ahead, and when he heard that Lu Xiangsheng wanted to attack Niulan Mountain with the Guanning army, he scolded his mother in his heart.

Everyone is the Ming army, who doesn't know who, the goods of the Guanning army, that is, the equipment is better, how dare they fight with the Tartars, these Liaodong military leaders, in addition to supporting the army and respecting themselves, covering up defeat into victory, and defrauding the country of money and food, what else can they do? Counting on them to rescue Gao Yang, it is better to ask Li Xingzhi's bandit.

Moreover, if he returns to Gaoyang with the Beijing camp, then his old background has not been exposed by the imperial court, and he has no soldiers in his hands, so he is not at the disposal of the imperial court.

Thinking of this, Huang Wenchang knelt down and said: "Your Majesty, there are many cavalry troops in the East, coming and going like the wind, once the last general is afraid that once the Beijing battalion leaves Beijing, the East Captives will come to the Beijing Division, the life and death of the last general is small, and the safety of His Majesty is great, the last general wants to return to Gaoyang alone, recruit brave people, and fight with the Tartars to the end, as long as Your Majesty Yunchen will transfer all the money and grain of Gaoyang Zhouzuo to Gaoyang, and the last general is willing to live and die with Gaoyang." ”

Chongzhen on the throne, Wang Chengen, the great eunuch on the side of the attendant, Liu Yuliang, the first assistant, and others were all shocked.

Chongzhen hurriedly descended, stepped in front of Huang Wenchang and helped Huang Wenchang, who was kneeling on the ground, and said emotionally: "General Huang is really loyal to the minister, I only hate the incompetence of the officials of the military department, bury my Ming good general, Aiqing rest assured, I immediately issued an order, the counties immediately transferred the money and grain to Gaoyang, the pseudo-king Abba Tai hated the general to the bone, the general is here, be careful." ”

General Huang, who was forced to go to Liangshan, had no choice but to say: "Your Majesty, rest assured, there are still tens of thousands of people in Gaoyang, as long as you work together, you will be able to ensure that the city is safe." ”

Seeing that Huang Wenchang was full of confidence, Xue Guoguan, the second assistant of the cabinet, was moved in his heart, got up and said loudly: "Your Majesty, Huang Shuai is alone in the lonely city, and the old minister is not talented, I am willing to go to Gaoyang to supervise the slave in person, if I can stain the battlefield with Huang Shuai's blood, it will not be in vain." ”

Yang Sichang and Chen Xinjia glanced at each other, and secretly instructed, "Xue Guoguan, you just want to grab the merits of the war, and you don't rob it like this, Gaoyang has no soldiers to defend, how many days can you hold out on to the people?" ”

Thinking of Emperor Shicai's direct accusation at the incompetence of the military department, and then looking at the righteous and awe-inspiring Xue Guoguan, he got up and said: "Xue Ge Lao, he does not avoid arrows and stones, and he is really a model for my generation." ”

Xue Guoguan has Xue Guoguan's thoughts, before the five thousand people of Abatai were defeated by Huang Wenchang in the field, and now there is a city to defend, and seeing that Huang Wenchang is full of confidence, there should be no problem in holding Gaoyang.